Always (1989 film)

• Richard Dreyfuss: Pete Sandich
• Holly Hunter: Dorinda Durston
• Brad Johnson: Ted Baker
• John Goodman: Al Yackey
• Audrey Hepburn: Hap
• Roberts Blossom: Dave
• Marg Helgenberger: Rachel

Always - The Fire Angel by Montana ( Always) is an American fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg from 1989 The film is a remake of the film Battle in the clouds with Spencer Tracy from the year 1943..

Action

Pete Sandich is a pilot water-bombing aircraft, which are used in fighting forest fires. It combines a relationship with Dorinda Durston, which holds his work as too dangerous and asks him to look for another job. Sandich finds another job, but still flies one last fighting operation. Here, his plane caught fire and Pete dies.

Henceforth protects the spirit of Pete the young pilot Ted Baker. Baker falls in love with Dorinda Durston.

When Ted voluntarily wants to fly a dangerous mission, Dorinda pirates his plane and meets the mission itself, must in the end but complete a ditching. But the spirit of Pete helps her to survive the life-threatening situation. He tells her everything that Pete wanted to tell her when he was still alive, and to say goodbye, as Dorinda saved and is back at Ted Baker.

Reviews

• Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post of 22 December 1989, that you could fall asleep while watching ( sleepy update of a Spencer Tracy wartime fantasy ). The screenwriter had nothing to say. The film was an unfulfilled promise.

• Lexicon of international film: re- filming of " A Guy Named Joe" (1943 ); in the relocation of the melodramatic story into the present unconvincing and inconsistent in style. Perfect action scenes and some nice examples fashioned illusion cinema provides nevertheless a certain pleasure.

Awards

Jerry Belson in 1990 was nominated for the Saturn Award, as well as the film as Best Fantasy Film.

Background

The film was shot in the U.S. states of Montana, Washington and Utah, he played in the U.S. cinemas 43.9 million U.S. dollars. The cost of production was estimated at 29.5 million U.S. dollars.

The angel Hap was the last film role of Audrey Hepburn.